Speed up your WordPress Blog using .htaccess

Blog loading speed is an essential part of SEO. If your site takes much time to load then your website will be penalizing by search engines. Google penalize slow sites by dropping 20% search traffic from Google search. Other search engine like Yahoo, Bing also penalize slow sites by dropping 15-20% search traffic. Here are some .htaccess tips and tricks which can help you in speeding up your blog.
You have to use these codes in your .htaccess file located in your hosting account root directory.

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When I first discovered that my site speed was only 14/100 I knew I had to do something and fast. I started researching and implemented a few plugins for WordPress. Then in adjusting settings my .htaccess file became a little corrupt and the plugin asked that I removed the extras. Well I had no idea what should be in there and what shouldn’t. So how the heck was I to remove the extras? Anyway I stumbled upon your site and then started to re-write slowly my .htaccess file. Now thankfully site speed has jumped tremendously. I’d like to thank you for providing code to insert. Great articles.